The concept of a “skate blog” is close to non-existent in 2016. Solointerviewed Dan Watson, the mind behind YouWillSoon, a notorious skate industry gossip repository that made him a certain canteen manager’s arch nemesis from roughly 2004-2008. “But I think what most people really ignored about the blog is that I think skateboarding is fucking awesome. I think skateboarding is so good. I feel like people think that skateboarding in the Olympics or Street League or something can somehow ruin skateboarding or that it’ll somehow dilute the coolness of skateboarding down to the point where it’s not going to be cool anymore. But that’s not going to happen.”

On this last Monday Links post of the year, I’d just like to say thank you everyone for being along for the ride in 2016 and for all of your support. Besides a bit of an update slump at the start of summer, this has probably been the best year ever on this website for content, creativity and productivity (ok, fine, we blew it on the Christmas clip.) Hope to keep it going for many chill years to come.

On September 12, 2005, Quartersnacks began as a website to post often-average — occasionally above-average — skateboard videos. It was a place to share the jokes from yesterday’s midtown session, and a medium to talk shit about skateboarding or whatever the hell else was going on in New York at the time.

Thanks to some good luck, a lot of great friends, and above all, an odd thing called skateboarding that has grown a hundredfold in New York this past decade, we’re still here today, exactly ten years later. Still talking shit, still not particularly incredible at skating, and still having a good time :)

Thank you to everyone who has been along for the ride, told a friend about the website, or put a sticker on their board. Hopefully, we’ll still be doing some variant of the same thing in another ten years.

On September 12th, 2005, Quartersnacks.com began. Exactly five years ago.

Throughout all the design changes, the slow periods of minimal updates, barrages of inside jokes that probably annoy more people than they should, and the gradual build-up of hours and hours of video footage and thousands upon thousands of words, we hope that the site has in one way or another engaged, entertained, or informed anyone out there about this little island and its surrounding areas, which sometimes seems like it makes up the whole world if you don’t leave it every so often.

So a big thank you to everyone who visits every day, every other day, or even every week, every person that has ever left a comment, recommended the site to a friend, retweeted an update, posted a link to QS on their Facebook page, left a “Thumbs Up” on a YouTube video, or even left an un-constructive, negative comment while undermining the magic of web statistics that reveal you visit the site on a daily basis. We don’t make any money off the website — no stupid Google Adsense, no private Quartersnacks list to get into Le Bain, and no collaborations with Purple Magazine on the horizon — so all the love and support from the people who enjoy the site and spread the word about it keeps us motivated to continue running this thing.

Last but not least, thanks to any website that has ever linked to Quartersnacks, anyone who has ever been down to work on a project together, anyone who has ever submitted a clip, and anyone who has ever went out of their way to film a trick for Quartersnacks, give a constructive comment, or submit any sort of content. Because in the end, the content is what it all comes down to. In an age where the same five YouTube/Vimeo links get re-embedded on every skate-related media outlet throughout the weekly update cycle, we always try to put the effort into making things a bit more unique, interesting, and relay updates with a bit of personality attached, so it doesn’t simply look like the remaining 95-percent of sites out there. And a big thank you to all the sites out there who strive to do the same thing, and not just re-post the same old embed code, all of you (well, the few of you) keep all of us motivated to do our own thing. Without the content, there’d be nothing.

And if you read this whole thing, thank you. Thanks to Young Jeezy as well.